Update #10 My spirit is always alive, not the blog…

Just a mini update (without a READ MORE) this time. As the title says, I am still very motivated to finish this course. But is not easy to find enough time. Last weeks were hectic at work due to the preparation of our quarterly planning event. And even in the quarterly hack week I had only little time for my Java journey as I joined other trainings and organised a (JIRA) training of my own.

For the 2nd time this month my blog was down a few days without me noticing. This time because my (external USB) backup drive was full. Not sure what happened, as I thought older backups were automatically removed. Have to keep a better eye on this and find out how Proxmox handles this exactly. And I was thinking, probably first thing I have to develop when I am a little bit more advanced in Java, is a simple “host monitor” script: Hit https://adeknegt.nl and check if there is 200 response code. Suppose this is dead simple with Spring, but maybe it is doable too with plain old Java. I still have the networking chapter to go in the course.

Finally, I am now in the middle of the 6.5 hours chapter on collections (sets, maps and some assorted extra’s). I feel it is really important to learn this part well, as in almost all programs you use them extensively. Now at 47% of the course (not sure how they measure this, maybe just a count of videos + exercises). On to the next 53%!

(I don’t feel like celebrating post #10, maybe a big party at #25 or so)